#erin

Here's something I've learned from seventeen years of living: there's nothing you can do to make someone love you. ↗

— Katherine Easer

#vicious-little-darlings #love

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#pain #poetry #poetry-quotes #sadness #suffering

would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it. ↗

— Viktor Frankl

#meaning #suffering #existentialism

I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?" "He became engulfed in fire." "Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #magic-bleeds #ilona-andrews

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #literature #literature-quotes #long-ago

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#color #dejan-stojanovic #final #final-vctory #literature

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#litter #loitering #trash #humor

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#humor #love #luthe #humor

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst. ↗

— Kate Ross

#business

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always - always - returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#hatred #obedience #religion #searching #suffering